<TITLE>08. Par 80-89</TITLE>L-80   Also we'll take another for just a moment. Abraham was another prophet of the Lord, that the Word came to. And told him, when he was seventy-five years old, and Sarah was sixty-five years old, that he was going to have a child by Sarah. Now, that was quite a shock to an unbeliever. Could you imagine, today, such a thing happening even in this day, with all of our scientific achievements, and all these test-tube babies they talk about, and so forth? But this old woman, now of sixty-five years old, and an old man of seventy-five years old, but the Word of the Lord came to Abraham and told him that this was going to happen. And Abraham believed God. Now, no matter how much God spoke, and how true it was, Abraham had to believe what God said, to make it so. Now look how that man was tested, with his testimony, that he did believe.

L-81 That same man that made that confession, that he believed God, he's a person like you are, sitting here tonight. We still believe God. We got to believe His Word is the Truth. And He'll prove it, that It's the Truth, if we'll just believe it.

L-82   Now look at the hindrance that Abraham had. First thing was his age, seventy-five years old, and Sarah being sixty-five. She was way past the change of life, the menopause. No doubt but what it stopped, many years before. He had lived with her as a wife. It was his half sister, had probably taken her when she was just a girl in her teens, and had married her. And he had had no children. She was absolutely barren. And now we find that, to do this, he had to separate himself from all of the peoples who did not believe it, in order to make it come to pass.

L-83 I don't mean to say you have to separate yourself from peoples. But you have to separate yourself from all the gossip of unbelief, and stay away from that. When people says, "Ah, those things don't happen! That's a bunch of lunatic people! There is no such a thing as that happening," just close up your ears and walk away. Don't pay any attention to it.

L-84   The Bible said that "Abraham staggered not at the promise of God, through unbelief; but was strong, giving praise to God." His name was changed from Abram to Abraham, the changing of the name made his name, "father of nations." Could you imagine a man living with his wife, his sweetheart, that he had lived with her now for all these years, and now somewhere in the age of eighty years old, and his wife seventy years old, and yet without one child or any hope of child, yet claimed that he was the "father of nation." Could you imagine the criticism of his passing fellow man would say, "Father of nations, now how many children do you have at this time?" And all the criticism he had to go through with!

L-85 But Abraham didn't stagger anywhere at all, of unbelief. He believed that God was able to perform that which He had promised, that God would prove His Word, no matter how long it took. But instead of getting weaker each time, like we are prone to do, he got stronger all the time. "If it didn't happen today, tomorrow it will be a greater miracle, 'cause it's one day older." That was God, that was God in Abraham, for he knowed that God proved all of His Words to be so.

L-86   If His children will only take His Word, so He can prove It by you! That's the only way He can prove His Word.

L-87 He doesn't prove It to unbelievers. They can't be proved; they are unbelievers. But, It's not to unbelievers. It's not for unbelievers.

L-88 It's to him that believe. And if He can find somebody who will believe His Word, He will prove His Word by you. And sometimes sickness and things happen to us that way, that God can prove Himself.

L-89 Do you remember the blind man that Jesus found? They said, "Who sinned, he or his father, his mother?"


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